An OTE bride

Heather Wheeler is a regular OTE reader, and one of my favorite commenters. Her comments are always interesting, thoughtful and/or perfectly constructive.

Like many of my readers, she’s also my Facebook friend and I’ve been following her wedding planning. I knew it was coming up, but remembered it was today when she mentioned how bummed she was she couldn’t attend the OTE part — since it was the night before she was to get married.

Today, I was talking with her florist (who was alsomy florist — and favorite wedding vendor, Karen Splendido of Splendid Stems), who mentioned Heather was bummed she missed the party. Beside being connected through OTE, Heather had found Karen through me, so Karen invited me down to surprise Heather and wish her well before she headed off to say “I do.”

Always eager to meet a reader, I agreed. (SN — Heather and her attendants all had matching robes, which I thought was a nice touch, and saved everyone from having to think about what they would wear that didn’t have to go over their heads.)

Karen will have a bunch of pictures from Heather and Jason’s wedding in the next few days on her blog– both hers, and those from wedding photographer Vincent Gizzi, who I also met this afternoon.

But, in the meantime, I wanted to share a couple images of the bride getting ready. The last one is of Heather, Karen and me.*

Thank you to everyone for your well wishes. Shannon, I was VERY surprised (I may have squealed haha)! My girls were all from out of town, and I didn’t even think to introduce Kristi to them because I just assume that everyone knows her!

Karen’s flowers were BEYOND amazing. I am soooo happy to have found her through Kristi and OTE.